Business Planning

Owning and running a business is a dynamic experience &emdash; change and growth are inevitable. The key to success is to take advantage of the opportunities that will help your business thrive and avoid situations that may hurt your bottom line. Our attorneys are skilled in identifying growth strategies — they will stand by your side to help you make the right decisions. The lawyers in VMD&D's Business Planning Practice are not narrow specialists. We are experienced business lawyers who understand the wide range of challenges that face every business. We have experience and expertise in all stages of the life cycle of a business, from its initial organization to its final disposition, whether through a public offering, sale, or transition to the next generation of leadership. We understand corporate law and commercial law, but more importantly, we understand business.

Our clients are family-owned businesses, start-ups, entrepreneurial businesses, and other privately-held businesses. Our clients include sole proprietorships, corporations, partnerships, limited partnerships, and limited liability companies. Typically, we work directly with the owners and managers of these businesses.

Our Private Company and Corporate Counseling Practice services include:

• Organizing the business, including advice on choice of entity and structure, and designing, negotiating, and drafting shareholder agreements, buy-sell agreements, LLC operating agreements, and other corporate governance, control, and exit arrangements
• Corporate housekeeping, including preparing resolutions, keeping minute books and making state filings
• Financing assistance with structuring and documenting initial and subsequent debt and/or equity financing
• Regulatory assistance with licensing and regulatory matters peculiar to the particular business or industry
• Contracts and commercial matters, including drafting and reviewing purchase and sale agreements, consulting agreements, sales representative agreements, and similar contracts
• Disputes among owners, including helping the owners implement measures designed to reduce the possibility of disputes and counseling the company or its owners in dealing with disputes when they arise

Because we provide a broad range of services, our role generally includes coordinating the involvement of other practice groups, such as employment, tax, litigation, and real estate.

VMD&D's Business Planning Practice can help you with a specific project, act as an extension of your in-house counsel’s office, or act as your primary counsel. We have the experience and the expertise that produce excellence and sound, practical advice.

For more information about our Business Planning Practice, please contact:
Peter Vestevich 
Sam DuBois 
Andrew B. Janies 
L. Stanford Evans 
William J. Lamping 
Alan M. Kanter 

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